Movie
Ikiru
"A big story of a little man which will grip your soul..."
Movie
Ikiru
"A big story of a little man which will grip your soul..."
8.3(1,366)·1952·143 min·Drama
8.3·1952·143m·Drama
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Overview
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
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Facts · TMDB
- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- Japanese
- Budget
- $85,000
- Revenue
- $55,240
Keywords · TMDB
- dying and death
- japan
- bureaucracy
- age difference
- praise
- office
- night life
- sense of life
- playground
- obsequies
- swing
- loneliness
- office politics
- black and white
- co-workers relationship
- infatuation
- wake
- public works
- bureaucrat
- thoughts of retirement
- terminal cancer
- city park
- civil servant
- monotonous life
- accomplishments
- office gossip
- depressing
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